Joe Madden, Principal Analyst at Mobile Experts, explained, "Mobile Experts worked in collaboration with Frank Rayal at XONA Partners, to interview dozens of companies and fully investigate the impact of centralized baseband processing. We have been able to isolate the key factors which will lead to Cloud RAN implementation in some markets, but not in others."

"Our Cost-Benefit analysis shows that Cloud RAN processing will have a big impact in future LTE-Advanced networks," explained Frank Rayal of XONA Partners, the primary author of this report. "Coordinated MultiPoint (CoMP) and enhanced Inter-cell Interference Coordination will work much better in a Cloud RAN environment. We've built a model which clearly shows the important factors which drive success for this architecture, and we've been able to use our model to create a forecast for future adoption."

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